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Haunted Houses & Ghost Tours in Denver, CO

Haunted attractions, scream parks and ghost tours in Denver, CO. Each listing’s name, address, phone and website come from the business’s Google Business Profile and were checked against its own website. Seasonal attractions keep their own open dates, so check the business’s site before you go.

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Denver, CO — Haunted Houses & Ghost Stories

The history

Denver's central haunted site is a park with a paper trail. Cheesman Park was established as Mount Prospect Cemetery in 1858, Denver's first public burial ground. By the 1890s the city decided to convert the cemetery into a public park, and families were given 90 days to relocate their loved ones' remains — but many could not afford to do so. The city then contracted an undertaker to move the remaining bodies, reportedly over 5,000 of them. The contractor was caught cutting bodies into thirds to move more remains per trip and pocket the extra money, since he was paid per coffin. The project was ultimately abandoned, and thousands of bodies remain beneath the park to this day.

That account comes from the Denver After Dark bus tour's own FAQ, which tells it as documented history — and it is the factual spine of every Cheesman Park ghost story ever told. The same tour notes that the surrounding Capitol Hill neighborhood's mansions include filming locations and inspiration for two Hollywood horror classics, and that the mansion of the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown is widely regarded as one of Colorado's most famously haunted houses.

Lower Downtown — LoDo — supplies the second strand: the Dark Side of Denver tour walks guests through Union Station and the district's tunnel, bar and brothel history, the documented seedy underside of a railroad-era city.

The legend

Cheesman Park is, in the bus tour's words, "one of Denver's most famous reportedly haunted locations," investigated by paranormal researchers from across the United States and internationally, with reports of unexplained activity documented — as reports — for over a century.

The legend's most famous echo is fictional. The tour operator states that Poltergeist (1982) drew creative inspiration from Cheesman Park's documented history of unremoved cemetery remains — a suburban home built on an undisturbed burial ground mirrors, the operator says, the history of the park and Capitol Hill. It likewise presents The Changeling (1980) as inspired by paranormal experiences reported at a now-demolished Capitol Hill mansion. These are the operator's claims about the films' inspiration, repeated as the operator's claims.

The city's third legend belongs to a haunted house rather than a site: the 13th Floor's "Legend of the 13th Floor," the superstition that the forbidden level was never meant to be seen — a storyline the attraction itself tells, and folklore of the elevator shaft rather than of Denver's soil.

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Hountix lists 5 places in Denver, CO. Seasonal attractions keep their own open dates, so check each business's own site before you go.

13th Floor Haunted House

The 13th Floor Haunted House takes the thinnest superstition in architecture — the floor that buildings skip — and builds a whole mythology on it. Its own attractions page tells the headline story under its own heading, "Legend Of The 13th Floor": "You step into the elevator – but beware – there is no 13th floor. Legend says terror awaits those bold enough to go looking for it. Cloaked in shadow and crawling with unspeakable secrets, the 13th floor was never meant to be seen. But tonight, you've been invited inside." A character, Mr. Hallows, is presented as "the key master and warden of this forbidden level," keeper of a twisted collection of monsters; the locks have rusted, the horrors are free, and "the elevator isn't going back up."

That is the attraction's own storyline, written by its creators, and it is labelled as such here — not history, and not folklore older than the business, though it plays on a genuine building superstition that long predates it. The page lists the supporting attractions in the same voice: The Blood Shed, domain of a deranged butcher called The Carver, whose crew has turned meat hooks and chainsaws on humans; and Twilight Of The Damned, set in Blackthorne Manor, an asylum cursed — in the storyline — by a vengeful witch, once the wife of a murdered psychiatrist, whose residents wander sleepless as madness takes root.

The page carries practical warnings worth repeating plainly: the event may be too intense for children 12 and under, and minors 15 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Dark Side of Denver Ghost Tours

That is a history-first pitch, and it fits the district. LoDo is Denver's railroad-era lower downtown, and Union Station is its anchor landmark; a tour that goes inside the buildings rather than past them is trading on documented fabric — a station, a tunnel network, a bar-and-brothel economy that served a frontier rail town. The hauntings attached to those buildings are reported by the operator and its booking partners, and are presented exactly that way: the operator says the buildings are haunted; the history of what the buildings were is the checkable part.

Claims about current routes, building access, schedule and price should therefore be confirmed on darksideofdenver.com before anything here is treated as current — walking-tour routes and building access change, and a tour that goes "inside" lives or dies on permissions that can lapse. What does not change is the underlying material: a rail district's worth of saloons, tunnels and vice, a grand station still standing, and a local tradition that has been attaching ghosts to all of it for years. The tour's job, like this story's, is to keep the documented Denver and the reported Denver in their separate, labelled lanes.

Denver After Dark: The Haunted Denver Bus Tour

Denver After Dark does something most ghost tours cannot: it shows you the grave problem from a climate-controlled seat. The operator's own FAQ — — describes a maximum of 14 guests in a shuttle bus, departing from the Denver Public Library's Central Branch, on an approximately two-hour route through Capitol Hill and Cheesman Park. Public tours run Fridays and Saturdays from June through September, and nightly in October in the site's scheduling summary (its FAQ text says Thursday through Sunday every night in October); private tours run year-round by email. Seasonal either way — this is not a year-round public schedule.

The centrepiece is Cheesman Park, and the operator tells its history straight: Mount Prospect Cemetery, established 1858; the 1890s conversion to a park; the 90 days families were given to move their dead; the undertaker paid per coffin who was caught cutting bodies into thirds; the abandoned project; the thousands of remains still beneath the park. On that documented foundation the operator builds its reported layer — a century of reported unexplained activity, paranormal investigators from around the world — and its film claim: that Poltergeist drew creative inspiration from Cheesman Park's history, and The Changeling from experiences reported at a demolished Capitol Hill mansion. The route also passes the Molly Brown mansion, which the operator calls one of Colorado's most famously haunted houses.

Attribution discipline is what makes this tour's copy trustworthy, and the operator mostly supplies it itself: "reportedly haunted," "documented history," "reported paranormal activity." This story follows the same lines. The cemetery scandal is history. The ghosts are reports. The films are the operator's account of their inspiration. All three are worth the bus fare; only the first is fact.

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